sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoPeople Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centerswww.forbes.comexternal-linkmessage-square185linkfedilinkarrow-up1966arrow-down112
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minus-squarelemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down6·20 hours agoI don’t want either please. Centralized energy sources should be considered a bad idea in Europe after what happened in Ukraine.
minus-squareramenshaman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 hours agoI think nuclear power safety has improved significantly over what they had in the USSR 40 years ago.
minus-squarelemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agoThat’s fine, but even if it was 100% safe, a centralized energy source can be taken over (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Plant#2022_Russian_occupation_of_the_plant) or destroyed (like a lot of other Ukrainian energy infrastructure) and then, people are without energy. Decentralized energy solves that problem. Destroying or taking over 1 nuclear power plant is far easier than taking over or destroying the solar panels on every house in a country.
minus-squarelemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours ago Russia broke a dam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Kakhovka_Dam Russia took over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and did things with it that were considered highly dangerous by IAEA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Plant#2022_Russian_occupation_of_the_plant
I don’t want either please.
Centralized energy sources should be considered a bad idea in Europe after what happened in Ukraine.
I think nuclear power safety has improved significantly over what they had in the USSR 40 years ago.
That’s fine, but even if it was 100% safe, a centralized energy source can be taken over (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Plant#2022_Russian_occupation_of_the_plant) or destroyed (like a lot of other Ukrainian energy infrastructure) and then, people are without energy. Decentralized energy solves that problem.
Destroying or taking over 1 nuclear power plant is far easier than taking over or destroying the solar panels on every house in a country.
Which was what?
Chernobyl